Template Tuesday - 🗳️ Poll: How do you foster belonging in remote and hybrid teams?

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Building trust in remote and hybrid teams can be hard when you don't see each other in person. 🖥️ And with a heavy workload it can be difficult to make time to enjoy your colleagues. ⏳ ️The imagination we see teams around the world inspire us, and we want to know more.

What are your go to strategies to foster belonging in remote and hybrid teams? ✨

⚡ Do you prefer mixing engaging warmups and energizers into everyday meetings?

🎉 Do you gather the team to celebrate and acknowledge important life events such as birthdays, work anniversaries, promotions, or congratulate on the newborn baby?

🏕️ Do you prefer to set aside time for more traditional team building activities?

🥪 Or do you believe in candid feedback and retros as a way to learn and get closer as a team?

Vote in the poll, or share your best ideas in the comments below. 💡

JulieWhitehouse

This is a great topic. I think that it is challenging to give feedback in times of remote work. So to me it is important to keep this going as way to stay involved and provide input. Otherwise people might feel they are working in a vacuum with no input from team members. I think a retrospective is a great way for the team to grow and learn. It is hard to schedule sometimes, but trying it out on the most important meetings or projects is another great way for the team to come together and hear each others thoughts.

lailavon

Warmups and energizers are a great way to break the ice or have some time to chit chat before diving into work-related topics. Ultimately though it takes time to build trust (and a sense of belonging) so I think being more intentional and dedicating longer periods of time for team building activities and team feedback are better.